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red Deits ana rlbbon bows and fuckers at
neck and wrists, are also very pretty.
With jacket bodices independent waist
coats are frequently worn, made and fin
ished exactly like those intended for
gentlemen. Plain white linen or pique,
or that showing a tiny spot of color, are
used for this purpose.
The new dress goods grow in beauty
as the new importations are unfolded to
public view, and one is impressed with the
fact that weaves and fabrics were never
SO attractive. Trashy goods are rarely
seen, and such has been the progress
made by manufacturers that in fabrics
of fair quality the colors and effects are
equally as good as in stuffs of richer
grade. 1t would seem almost impossible
to imagine weave or color combination
that is not seen in the new spring fabrics.
A notable feature is the remarkable
variety of colors and shades, and the
prevalence of delicate tints. What are
called Pompadour designs are seen on
some of the choice novelties. These
take the form of wild rose sprays,
punches of forget-me-nots, or other
dainty flowers with pale green leaves,
woven in lines or stripes in the most
exquisitely blended, soft tints and shad-
ings imaginable, alternating with stripes
of plain color. They are seen alike in
both silks and woolens, and in the
handsome cotton goods now so much
sought after.
These Pompadour colors are repro
duced in new spring millinery, in rib
bons, in ornamental fichus and garnitures
for the neck, and are likely to be elabo-
rated in many ways before the season is
over. The long predominance of quiet,
sober tints makes this revival of bright
colors all the more striking.
NORMA BLAKE.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20

of this conscientious people The So
ciety does not undertake hnrials where
there Is nothing but conjecture to ally
the body with their race, but almost
always it happens that wealthy Hebrews
see the death notice or hear Of the case
and recompense the society for perform
ing this rite. The large Hebrew insti-
buttons, their hospitals, homes and asy-
lums, ALI bury their dead This is not.
especially wonderful OF praiseworthy say
you. Well, perhaps not; but il is not
done by any Christian corporation Of
those scots in the city. Only the He
brews do it. JULIAN RALPH.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20
Peat for Locomotives.

In Russia, on the Northern railways, the
locomotives hitherto burning wood or coal
are being adapted for peat burning, the saw
ing being estimated at some fifty per cent.
In many places the peat is cut by hand ma
chimes, but these, although cheap and easy
to work, have the drawback that the peat
the peaAcutting machines worked by steam
power penetrate twenty feet, and reach the
lower, denser layers of peat, which, owing
to their superior quality, command a higher
price in the market
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20
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out a little when the belt is fastened, to
produce the bagged effect, but many pre-
fer them merely loose and held firmly by
the belt. Some blouses are made with
yoke front and back, but none are lined,
and all are made with short basques to
be worn outside the skirt.
Among the prettiest of the new de-
signs for children are what are known
in England as Smoked" dresses-that
is. those that are gathered or shirred
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20

who die amid mystery in the streets and
public houses and institutions have been
exposed in our morgue, whose doors were
open day and night. Latterly this funeral
institution had become copy of those
where the dead of Paris and London are
collected bare room fitted with table,
like slabs of marble on which the dead
rested beneath gentle spray of cold
water, whose limped clatter added an
other element of impressive ghastliness
to the place-a damp and chilling feeling
clothed with silence that the trickling
of the water emphasized and made the
more apparent. The nondescript hui
manity that rested thus was covered so
as to leave only the faces exposed, linen
sheets being employed for the purpose,
while the clothing and contents of the
pockets were heaped on the foot of each
slab to aid in identifying their former
possessors. This was all copied from
the European plan based on the idea
that the surest means of identifying the
unfortunate was to expose them to the
public. Unless l am very much mis-
taken, this custom still obtains in Lon
don, Paris, Berlin and the other capitals
But in New York our idle folks and
sightseeing neighbors will ever more
remain deprived of this most awful and
horrible of the sights of the metropolis.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20
Defxing Superstition.

Thirteen undertakes sat together at
table and dined with the Thirteen Club in
New York city on the evening of May ID.
The dinner commemorated the selection,
for the first time in New York city, of some
other day than Friday for hanging. The
sentenced Peter Smith to be hanged on Thurs
day he did it with the purpose, as Thirteen
Club man, of removing for once an unneces-
sary stigma of superstition from Friday.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20
A Dog That Talked just Like a Man,

We know an old lake captain who is an
nveterate reader Of the serial papers He
day when each fresh installment reaches him
is one of joy, AT one time he was wrapped
up in lurid tale entitled '"The Doge of
Venice" The last section of the story came,
he finished it, and in the excitement of the
climax threw the paper down and exclaimed :
"Well, that dog is the dash dashdest dog
ever read about. Dashed if he didn't talk
and act Just like man" -BHfalo Express.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20

as child's dress, it's simplicity giving
perfect freedom to the movements of the
limbs. Children of all ages wear them,
from the baby up to the miss of fifteen.
A perennial fayorite is the little sailor
costume. The one shown is made of blue
and white striped serge, laid in kits,
with blouse of plain white serge hav-
ing blue serge collar and cuffs trimmed
with three rows of narrow white braid.
A blue silk tie passes underneath the col
lar and is knotted in loose sailor bow
in front.
Parisians wear red silk blouses with
black silk skirts, accompanied by red hats
trimmed with ribbon and flowers of the
same tint. They certainly look very
CHIC and are likely to be popular in this
country Blouses of black surah, with
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20
WAYS OF GETTING ALONG.

One of the highest salaried skilled
workmen in Chicago is an expert safe opener
employed by large safe and lock manufacture
ing company there. He was once well-known
burglar. but reformed when released from the
penitentiary few years ago. He then secured
employment with the firm under heavy bonds
and has been with them ever since.
The chief industry of Kilbourn, Wis,
is the expectation of the trailing arbutus. The
flowers are made up into bouquets, theistems
being wrapped in moist cotton and tinfoil.
They are then placed in boxes and mailed to all
parts of the United States, including the South
and California, arriving there as fresh and fra
grant as when gathered in the woods of Wis
consin.
A citizen of Pasadena, Cal, kept the
wolf from the door during the winter by fur
nishing the village druggist with all the horned
toads he could capture. Altogether he brought
in several thousand and received good pay for
them. What the druggist wanted with them
nobody else knows, but he is supposed to have
utilized the oil extracted from them in the
manufacture of medicine.
Two men of Burnett, Wis, have trapped
5000 muskrats and sixty-five mink at Hairon
Marsh this winter. They were paid eleven cents
apiece for the muslrat skins and sometimes
received 81 each for the mink skins. Their
receipts last season were $500. Other trappers
on the Wolf river, in Wisconsin, have been
equally successful. One trapper caught 1856
muslrats in a week and sold the skins in Osh-
kosh for eighteen cents apiece.
A tramp recently arrested in jackson,
Mich, for disorderly conduct was found to
have capacious wallet in his inside pocket
STUFFED full of two-cent postage stamps. He
confessed that he had been making tour of
the State begging stamp from every person
he met, ON the plea of wishing to send letter
to his wife. When a stamp was not forthcom-
ing he usually got two coppers or a nickel to
buy one with, and was able to live in comfort
q1s revenue.
A man in Birmingham, Mich, invested
800 all the money he had in the world, in a
double barreled shotgun on Christmas Day
and entered into contract with local restau-
rant-keeper to furnish him with an unlimited
supply Of fat sparrows at one centapiece. The
agreement has been the cause of great salts
faction to each of the parties to it The hunter
has made more money per week than he ever
did before at his trade. and the reputation of
the restaurant mans quail on toast, at twenty
SCENTS brace, keeps his dining-room crowde I.
The manners Of many a society woman
arc not as good as those Of her maid.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20

only number between 100 and $50 year,
and Providence so operates that not all of
these are doomed to nameless graves.
But the great majority in this silent
army that marches forever to our Pot
ter's field are those who die in the hospit-
ais and asylums and are known by name
and previous occupation, but are not
claimed or cared for by relations or
friends, if any such they have Next in
number come the dead of the poor-most
shocking and pitiful of all-the dead
whom the city tears from the loving but
helpless arms of kindred too poor to min
lister to their last necessities. All these
thousands are collected, at the rate of
nearly score day, by the municipal
dead-wagon. Nothing, it seems to me. is
our city than the work of the dead
wagon. Not five thousand of our citi-
zens know it when they see it, or could
describe it. Few comparatively ever
heard of it. In truth there is nothing
peculiar about it. 1t is an undertaker's
wagon, black, lightly-made vehicle,
boxed over and with double doors in the
back, but without any name or number
anywhere upon it. With this becoming
modesty of appearance it goes upon its
endless, busy rounds, silently seeking
that which is somehow essential to our
vast accumulation of humanity and vet
which disgraces our civilization, our
Christianity, aye, and our humanity.
This dead wagon lies up at Bellevue
Hospital, where word is sent of every
death in which the city must interest it.
self. A man falls dead in the street, a
babe dies in an asylum, a hospital charity
patient passes away, a vagrant surrenders
a wrecked life in a station-house cell, a
ruin of dissipated humanity expires in a
lodging-house or cheap hotel, or
drowned person is found in the water and
tied to wharf. In every such instance
word is sent from the precinct station
house to the driver of the dead wagon
and he leaps to his seat and goes in search
of his mortuary freight. Eachunknown
arrival is photographed, all possible
means of Identification are advertised
and the vacated tenement of clay" is
kept for twenty-four or forty eight hours,
during which time all who seek missing
friends or relatives are at perfect liberty
to visit the dead-house and prosecute
their search there. A record is kept of
each case and the system of burial is such
that even after the passage of many years
any remains may be recovered and re-
moved.
At night the deadboat slips alongside
the dead-house and receives it's gruesome
freig h t.
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C- wagon that
w szsE= worksincog-
s-=z.szerzSe--c nito amid
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20

The larger OF
the two chill
dren in the il
lustration has
one of these
on. They are
made in a va
riety of ways,
the one shown
having a shirr-
ed or "smock-
Gu yoAo, luA
sleeves, and a
full gathered
Skin t. T h e
smock is artis-
tic, light IN
weight, a n d
leaves nothing
to be desired
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20

accompanying lllustra-
ton. 1t is worn with
a tennis skirt of soft
wooden goods of a
cream tint, and is made
of light summer fan
mel striped in delicate
Pompadour tints. The
collar, belt and deep
cuffs are cream white,
and the chemisette is
of daintiest tucked
lawn, closed by tiny
gold studs. The front
of the blouse is pulled
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20
ACentre Shot.

A tramp who was booted out Of hotel
turned on the landlord and said II got out
e eS than your guests w s Il that Oa%so
SiJtinQs.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20
THE FASHIONS.
EFFECTS ATTAINED IN
THE NEW FABRICS.

Variety of Colors and shades-The Pom
padour Tints-some Model Costumes n
Illustrated = Walking Dresses, Tennis
Blouses, and New Designs for Children.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20

Ladies' cloth walking costumes are
being made. in a variety of styles after
tailor models, very popular one being
a habit bodice with draped skirt as shown
in the accompanying illustration.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20

The morgue of New York is closed
to the public. No longer can those
whose morbid tastes incline them that
way linger amid the shocking scenes
there, coming and going of their own
free will as they used to, and making
the presence of the unknown dead rem
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20
THE MORGUE.
HOW A GREAT CITY TAKES CARR
OF IT'S DEAD.

The Foreign Practice Of Exposing the
Bodies Of the Unknown Dead to Public
View Abandoned-The Modern Charon
That Conveys 6,7OO Corpses Every Year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20

green gauze surmounted by tuft Of
ostrich feathers.
Garibaldi skirts and tennis blouses are
a novelty of the season. Late last sea-
son Parisians introduced striped blouses,
which became very fashionable at con-
tinental seaside resorts. The fashion
has reached this side of the water, and
here will be perfect rage this year for
these Garibaldi blouses, which are made
in tiny stripes of bright colorings, both
in silk, wooi and washing materials. So
far as comfort and economy go they are
admirable garments, for they are worn
over skirts of different color, and sew
eral blorses may be adapted to one
skirt.
One of these blouses is shown in the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20

Boston Girl-"Oh, mother Ibid some
thing awfully immodest at the party to-
night"
Mother-"Why, my dear child, what
was it,"
B. G.--"That horrid bouquet Mr.. Bea-
con sent me had some cinnamon pinks
in it. They made me sneeze and--but
can't say it"
Mother-"Go on"
"B. G.-"My glasses fell off, and Mr.
Beacon saw my bare face. Nep York
Mercury.
The death of The Chisholm in Edinburgh,
on April 8 terminates the male line Of the
have been the chiefs foE some 100 years
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20

Such dresses are very useful and be-
coming, and with the addition of neat
long-wristed gloves and an appropriate
bonnet or hat equip one for almost any
daytime expedition. Ladies' cloth in
dark or light tints, checked suitings or
fine, smooth broadcloth are appropriate
materials for such suits. The waistcoat
may be of contrasting material-either
colored silks, plush or velvet, and fire.
quently a revers in contrast is adopted,
though when made completely Of cloth
such costumes are in the best taste,
A costume in redingote style, made on
a princess foundation, is shown in the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20

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and vagrant
part of the population availed them
selves of the privilege, and as to the
strangers that strayed into the tomblike
room, no good came of their visits
Instead of aiding Identification, pul .
licity hindered it, for timid and gentle
folks shrank from inspecting the dead
under the gaze of an idle crowd, and even
when glance showed them that the
body they were seeking was lying before
them they went away without making a
sign of recognition rather than betray
their secrets, their shame or their grief
for the edifieation of heartless on
lockers.
Now the white-washed basement win
dows once so full of shrinking interest to
so many who used to pass them at the
foot of East Twenty-sixth street, without
daring to venture in behind them
are closed. The gate is locked. Dust
has settled on the sills and copings and
the place not only looks but is as lifeless
as the objects it was built to receive. The
slabs are idle, the showering faucets over
them are dry and abandoned, the room is
dark and deserted. The new "dead-house'
the city has built has taken the place OF
the morgue. 1t is only seventy-five feet
away from the old one, but it might as
well be ten miles distant so far as the pub
lie is concerned, for it is within the high
walled yard of Bellevue Hospital, entrance
to which can only be had by those having
business there. This dead-house is q
great barn-like iron building built above
the water and possessed of cement
floor and ventilated roof. 1t is an awe.
some place only to those who are very
imaginative, for in plain fact it is light
and clean and wholesome to the senses
The sunshine pours in the great door
ways and the fresh breath of the river
blows constantly through it. Its only
furniture is light iron framework
around the sides, on which the plain pine
collins made in the city's workshop resi-
when they are filed awaiting removal
Six thousand seven hundred dead are
taken to this place every year. Not al
are nameless. The dead of the watersid,
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-01
FOR RENT Store Room and Dwell
ing. Apply to JOHN DUNN.

ATexas editor, who has suffered, frees
his mind as follows: las great moral
agent woman is a yard wide and all
wool, but as a book agent she cuts a
swath a mile wide and never misses a
victim We would much rather have a
friend pour pitcher Of molasses down
our back than to be interviewed by a
lady book agent whose mouth resembles
a crack in a lemon and whose nose
looks like an exclamation point in a
whirlwind.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-01
The B. & 0. R. R. Sold to Jay Gould.

TSbeciaI TO the Nlartins6uj.g Gazette.l
The greet Rail Road deal was con
sumated yesterday by the appearance
of Mr.. Could in Baltimore, with his tin
box containing 100000 in $1,000 notes,
and So. 100000 in certified checks, on
different banks, and banking houses in
New York. The necessary papers
transferring the stock was signed in
the presence Of Mr.. R. Garrett, Mr..
Gould; j. K. Cowan and Mr.. Roberts.
The deal was completed at I2:45 this
morning, and at ?. A. M, the party left
Baltimore on special train, on the p.
w. & B. R. r., for New York.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-01
syitayiinsbnrg Gazette.
Published daily Except Sunday by
F. VERNON ALER & CO.
RATES or ADVERTISING.

Standing advertisements,
per in. per mo. 81 90
Transient locals per line, each issue .o5
Merchants g g I" . .o3
/" per month 60
Advertisers with whom we have reg
ular running accounts will have their
bills rendered on the first Monday of
each month. All transient advertise
ments payable in advance.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-01
wreck on the southern Pacific.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, March 81. Meagre
details have reached here of wreck on the
Southern Pacific, 300 miles west of here At
Dryden a west-bound engine and caboose
smashed full tilt into freight train coming
east The trainnlen had no time to jump.
The breakage is very serious. Engineer
McCarnless was pinched and scalded TO
ieath
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-01

DR.. G. Port Morrison, of Vaudeville,
but formerly of Bunker Hill was seen
vending his way to our city on Tuesday.
He will soon remove his family and
remain in Martinsburg for some time.
We hope he will be pleased with his
new home and be quite successful.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-01

The mill that recently burned, belong
ing to Mr.. Travers will be rebuilt at
Bunker Hill, at an early day, if reports
are true. We do not see why such
walls should stand, as the situation IS
the best in Berkeley County for mill.
More enterprise is needed throughout
this County; and villages, why can t
they be more prosperous.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-01
Flour Shipments From Minneapolis.

MINNEAPoLIs, Mimi, March 3l.-Th-
shipment of flour from Minneapolis last week
were the largest ever known, owing to the
fear OF shippers that freights would be raised
April l. A large amount has been sold for
export direct and the demand for cars dur
ing the last few days has been all that the
roads could supply. Shipments last week
ware l53,09O barrels, against los, coo the same
week year ago.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-01

The Martinsburg daily Gazette is a
bright and interesting sheet and de-
serves a hearty support. We extend
to it hearty welcome. Beatrice in
Statesman.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-01

Mr. ]. w. Strong and family who have
been at the St, Clair during the past
winter, have removed to their home in
the country, one mile South of Darkes-
vile.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-01

It seems that lawyer is something of
"a carpenter. He can file bill, split
hair, chop logic, dovetail an argument,
make an entry, get up case, frame an
indictment, empanel a jury put them IN
a box, nail witness, hammer judge,
bore a court, chisel client and other
like things.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-01
Foreign.

Another attempt on the ears life is re-
ported; this time within the Gatschina
palace. The Nihilists have murdered q
wealthy man because he refused them finan-
cial aid, and promise others the same fate
The mobbing Of American missionaries in
Smyrna is reported. Lord Harrington,
speaking at the, inaugural Liberal Union
banquet. said the Gladstonians aud Unionists
we're still further apart, owing to the formers
attitude on the Irish crimes bill
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-01

Ex-congressman John Blair Hoge
is candidate for the vacant jndgeship
in the United States Court for the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-01

Moving is the general topic ofconver-
sation throughout the land. Quietude
and rest has been changed for that of
disorder and confusion.
Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-01

The Daily is the latest. and the incest
little pilgram imaginable. We do GER
tainly think it creditable start and
hope it may be the brightest, and still
more successful. Bunker Hill.